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Conversion. Compacts to ordnance. Rex Manufacturing Company, New Rochelle, New York. Inspecting shells for brass buttons

Conversion. Compacts to ordnance. Rex Manufacturing Company, New Roche...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a factory, plant, manufacture, assembly line, industrial facility, early 20th-century industrial architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Corn planting wire held taut over a slope in the land. The planter drops corn at the buttons which are three and one-half feet apart. Jasper County, Iowa
Washington, D.C. A man selling flags and buttons at the parade to recruit civilian defense volunteers

Washington, D.C. A man selling flags and buttons at the parade to recr...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a military parade, 20th-century armed forces, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Best Coat and Apron Mfg. Company : Attaching trouser buttons with automatic button-fastening machine / / OEM photo by Gruber.

Best Coat and Apron Mfg. Company : Attaching trouser buttons with auto...

Photograph shows employee of Best Coat and Apron Manufacturing Company working with a sewing machine to produce trousers for a uniform. No. D10785. Corresponding negative: LC-USE6-D-010785. Forms part of the F... More

Production. Marine boilers. The operator at the controls of a large flanging press must know his buttons. He is working on heavy plate being shaped into marine boiler drums at a big Midwest plant now producing war essentials exclusively

Production. Marine boilers. The operator at the controls of a large fl...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a worker, labor, factory, plant, manufacture, industrial facility, 1930s, mid-20th-century industrial photo, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Washington, D.C. A man selling flags and buttons at the parade to recruit civilian defense volunteers

Washington, D.C. A man selling flags and buttons at the parade to recr...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of worker, marketplace, vendor, 1930s, Great Depression, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

[Unidentified soldier in Confederate uniform with "I" buttons and Company B hat with tin drum canteen]

[Unidentified soldier in Confederate uniform with "I" buttons and Comp...

Case: Berg, 1-93. Gift; Tom Liljenquist; 2011; (DLC/PP-2012:127). Forms part of: Liljenquist Family Collection of Civil War Photographs (Library of Congress). Forms part of: Ambrotype/Tintype photograph filing... More

[Private Philip A. Nail of Co. F, 13th North Carolina Infantry Regiment in uniform with North Carolina state seal buttons and Co. F, 3rd North Carolina Volunteers (13th North Carolina Infantry) Regiment hat]

[Private Philip A. Nail of Co. F, 13th North Carolina Infantry Regimen...

Case: leather, floral design. Regiment information from www.csawardept.com/genealogy/research/units/NC.html. Gift; Tom Liljenquist; 2011; (DLC/PP-2012:127). Purchased from: Bryan Watson, Civil War Images, Torr... More

Betty Bronson modeling Roman Stripe -- Orange, Green, Red & Copper Knit Pleated Skirt with Brass Buttons

Betty Bronson modeling Roman Stripe -- Orange, Green, Red & Copper Kni...

A black and white photo of a woman in a dress. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Carding room, button factory, Warsaw, N.Y., U.S.A.

Carding room, button factory, Warsaw, N.Y., U.S.A.

H68571 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by Keystone View Company. No. 6778.

[Unidentified soldier in Confederate shell jacket with "I" buttons]

[Unidentified soldier in Confederate shell jacket with "I" buttons]

Case: Rinhart, no. 93. Digital photo with mat removed by Mike O'Donnell. Gift; Tom Liljenquist; 2010; (DLC/PP-2010:105). Purchased from: Edwards Military Antiques & Rare Collectibles, Minneola, Florida, 2002. ... More

Conversion. Compacts to ordnance. Samples of ordnance made by Rex Manufacturing Company, New Rochelle, world's largest manufacturers of compacts, now converted to army buttons, insignia, and cartridge shells

Conversion. Compacts to ordnance. Samples of ordnance made by Rex Manu...

Public domain photograph of New York in 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Eva guided the buttons to their respective holes

Eva guided the buttons to their respective holes

Variant title on verso: Jewish school children. (DLC/PP-1933:0080). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress). Published in: "A Passport to Paradise" by Myra Kelly, McClure's magazin... More

Collection of "votes for women" buttons made by Mrs. Alice Park of Palo Alto, Calif.

Collection of "votes for women" buttons made by Mrs. Alice Park of Pal...

Photograph shows "votes for women" buttons in various sizes, colors, and shapes attached to a canvas.

Stringing wooden buttons (button moulds) in a crowded home, Williamsburg, Massachusetts. Mrs. Weeks and her children 13 years, 11 years, 7 years and her grand children 7 years, 5 years and 4 years old, all working after school, holidays, etc., stringing these button moulds. Mrs. Weeks said that the most they ever made was from $7 to $10 a month; usually less. The house was crowded up and the floor not very clean. Mrs. Weeks said that one time the children were all confined to the house by scarlet fever, and then she strung the most buttons she ever did.  Location: Williamsburg, Massachusettsachusetts.

Stringing wooden buttons (button moulds) in a crowded home, Williamsbu...

A black and white photo of a group of people in a living room. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Unidentified soldier in Union officers's uniform and Connecticut state seal buttons]

[Unidentified soldier in Union officers's uniform and Connecticut stat...

Case: Berg, no. 3-167. Gift; Tom Liljenquist; 2012; (DLC/PP-2012:127). Purchased from: Nick Harris, 2012. Forms part of: Liljenquist Family Collection of Civil War Photographs (Library of Congress). Forms part... More

Soldier of the Royal Guard. Ancient dress not yet entirely obsolete - Coat & helmet are lined with a mail of hard leather - & studded with iron buttons

Soldier of the Royal Guard. Ancient dress not yet entirely obsolete - ...

Drawing shows a Royal Guardsman, full-length, standing, facing right, wearing uniform and helmet, holding a sword in left hand.

Woman in a room with a bicycle saying to a man and child, "Sew on your own buttons, I'm going for a ride"

Woman in a room with a bicycle saying to a man and child, "Sew on your...

Stereo copyrighted B.L. Singley. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Bicycles; Women; Shelf.

Witness F. A. Smith. Home of Sarkis Bedrosian, 7 Elizabeth St., Worcester, Massachusetts. Children 6 yrs., 8 yrs., 10 yrs. and mother. Earn about $1.50 a week working on garter buttons. Father earns $8 to $10 a week. (See also Report.)  Location: Worcester, Massachusettsachusetts.

Witness F. A. Smith. Home of Sarkis Bedrosian, 7 Elizabeth St., Worces...

Picryl description: Public domain image of child labor, economic conditions, children workers, exploitation, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Tanganyika. Dar-es-Salem. Native women with cicatrice patterns on their faces and buttons inserted in upper lips

Tanganyika. Dar-es-Salem. Native women with cicatrice patterns on thei...

Picryl description: Public domain image of ethnic group, people gathering, anthropology, colonies, exotic, indigenous people, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Corn planting wire held taut over a slope in the land. The planter drops corn at the buttons which are three and one-half feet apart. Jasper County, Iowa

Corn planting wire held taut over a slope in the land. The planter dro...

Public domain photograph of United States agriculture in the 1930s, country, farmer, farm, great depression, migration, dust bowl refugees, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Unidentified Union soldier in frock coat, private, kepi, 3rd-5th buttons open on coat]

[Unidentified Union soldier in frock coat, private, kepi, 3rd-5th butt...

Title from Gladstone collection checklist. Case: Leather geometric. Gladstone's inventory code: A7. Purchase; William A. Gladstone; 1995; (DLC/PP-1995:113.221) Published in: Eyes of the nation : a visual histo... More

Selling buttons--Italian festa - Public domain demonstration print

Selling buttons--Italian festa - Public domain demonstration print

Man selling buttons during festival in Little Italy, New York City. George Grantham Bain Collection.

[Unidentified soldier in Confederate shell jacket with "I" buttons]

[Unidentified soldier in Confederate shell jacket with "I" buttons]

Case: Rinhart, no. 93. Digital photo with mat removed by Mike O'Donnell. Gift; Tom Liljenquist; 2010; (DLC/PP-2010:105). Purchased from: Edwards Military Antiques & Rare Collectibles, Minneola, Florida, 2002. ... More

[Unidentified Union soldier in frock coat, private, kepi, 3rd-5th buttons open on coat]

[Unidentified Union soldier in frock coat, private, kepi, 3rd-5th butt...

Title from Gladstone collection checklist. Case: Leather geometric. Gladstone's inventory code: A7. Purchase; William A. Gladstone; 1995; (DLC/PP-1995:113.221) Published in: Eyes of the nation : a visual histo... More

[Smallest boy six buttons on coat is Silveo Calabrese, 10 Thornton St., works in R.H. Long Shoe Factory. George Brothers, 99 Winthrop St., works in R.H. Long Shoe Factory, been there 8 [?] weeks; has finished seventh grade.]  Location: South Framingham, Massachusetts.

[Smallest boy six buttons on coat is Silveo Calabrese, 10 Thornton St....

Public domain photograph - historical image of Massachusetts, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

5 minutes to 9 A.M. Eleven-year-old girl running home with a twenty-pound load of garter buttons for home-work. Trying not to be late for school. (See also Report.)  Location: Worcester, Massachusetts.

5 minutes to 9 A.M. Eleven-year-old girl running home with a twenty-po...

Picryl description: Public domain image of child labor, exploitation, children workers, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

"Trading buttons for peppers" / Jas. E. Taylor 96.

"Trading buttons for peppers" / Jas. E. Taylor 96.

Photograph of drawing by James E. Taylor showing prisoners at Andersonville Prison surrounding a Confederate officer and exchanging a button for a pepper as other prisoners behind the officer cut buttons from h... More

Best Coat and Apron Manufacturing Company. Attaching trouser buttons with automatic button-fastening machine

Best Coat and Apron Manufacturing Company. Attaching trouser buttons w...

Public domain photograph of laboratory, scientist, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Corn planting wire held taut over a slope in the land. The planter drops corn at the buttons which are three and one-half feet apart. Jasper County, Iowa

Corn planting wire held taut over a slope in the land. The planter dro...

Picryl description: Public domain image of field, irrigation, agriculture, water, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

[Soldier in Confederate uniform with state of Virginia buttons]

[Soldier in Confederate uniform with state of Virginia buttons]

Photograph shows soldier tentatively identified as Solomon Cox of Wytheville, Virginia. (Source: Seth Goodhart, 2014)

[Unidentified soldier in Confederate uniform with Louisiana state seal buttons, with canteen, cup, and haversack]

[Unidentified soldier in Confederate uniform with Louisiana state seal...

Picryl description: Public domain image of an American Civil War, military forces and conflict, officer, uniform, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

A black and white photo of a horse in a field, Iowa. Farm Security Administration photograph

A black and white photo of a horse in a field, Iowa. Farm Security Adm...

Public domain photograph related to Great Depression, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Washington, D.C. A man selling flags and buttons at the parade to recruit civilian defense volunteers

Washington, D.C. A man selling flags and buttons at the parade to recr...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a military parade, 20th-century armed forces, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Stringing wooden buttons (button moulds) in a crowded home, Williamsburg, Massachusetts. Mrs. Weeks and her children 13 years, 11 years, 7 years and her grand children 7 years, 5 years and 4 years old, all working after school, holidays, etc., stringing these button moulds. Mrs. Weeks said that the most they ever made was from $7 to $10 a month; usually less. The house was crowded up and the floor not very clean. Mrs. Weeks said that one time the children were all confined to the house by scarlet fever, and then she strung the most buttons she ever did.  Location: Williamsburg, Massachusettsachusetts.

Stringing wooden buttons (button moulds) in a crowded home, Williamsbu...

A group of women sitting in a living room. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Unidentified soldier in Union uniform with Massachusetts Volunteer Militia buttons]

[Unidentified soldier in Union uniform with Massachusetts Volunteer Mi...

Case: Berg, no. 3-113. Associated Massachusetts Volunteer Militia button processed as LOT 14043-1. Purchased from: Medhurst & Co., Overland Park, Kansas, 2010. Gift; Tom Liljenquist; 2010; (DLC/PP-2010:105). p... More

Jericho buttons - Public domain image. Dry plate negative.

Jericho buttons - Public domain image. Dry plate negative.

Public domain photograph of Middle East, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Cutting room, button factory, Warsaw, N.Y., U.S.A.

Cutting room, button factory, Warsaw, N.Y., U.S.A.

H68566 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by Keystone View Company. No. 6768.

Steel Buttons - Coup de Bouton, British Cartoon Print

Steel Buttons - Coup de Bouton, British Cartoon Print

Woman with huge feathered coiffured arms to block the sunlight being reflected from the buttons on the coat of a man in front of her. Engraving published by W. Humphrey. Forms part of : British Cartoon Prints C... More

His buttons are marked "U. S." - Public domain World War One sheet music

His buttons are marked "U. S." - Public domain World War One sheet mus...

words by Mary Norton Bradford ; music by Carrie Jacobs-Bond. (statement of responsibility) For voice and piano. Staff notation. (language)

[Unidentified soldier in Confederate shell jacket with "I" buttons]

[Unidentified soldier in Confederate shell jacket with "I" buttons]

Case: Rinhart, no. 93. Digital photo with mat removed by Mike O'Donnell. Gift; Tom Liljenquist; 2010; (DLC/PP-2010:105). Purchased from: Edwards Military Antiques & Rare Collectibles, Minneola, Florida, 2002. ... More

Home of Peter Mazkerthlain, 7 Elizabeth St., Worcester, Massachusetts. Children: 6 yrs., 9 yrs., 11 yrs., 12 yrs. old, working on garter buttons. Mother works too. Make $1.50 to $2.00 a week. Neighbors say she keeps them at work late at night. (See also Report.) Photo at noon. Witness, F.A. Smith.  Location: Worcester, Massachusettsachusetts.

Home of Peter Mazkerthlain, 7 Elizabeth St., Worcester, Massachusetts....

Picryl description: Public domain image of child labor, exploitation, children workers, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

His buttons are marked "U. S." - Public domain World War One sheet music

His buttons are marked "U. S." - Public domain World War One sheet mus...

words by Mary Norton Bradford ; music by Carrie Jacobs-Bond. (statement of responsibility) For voice and piano. Staff notation. (language)

[Unidentified soldier in Confederate uniform with rifleman buttons]

[Unidentified soldier in Confederate uniform with rifleman buttons]

Picryl description: Public domain image of an American Civil War, military forces and conflict, officer, uniform, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

[Unidentified soldier in Union jacket with Massachusetts state seal buttons]

[Unidentified soldier in Union jacket with Massachusetts state seal bu...

Case: Berg, no. 3-236. Gift; Tom Liljenquist; 2012; (DLC/PP-2012:127). Purchased from: Bryan Watson, Civil War Images, Torrington, Wyoming, 2011. Forms part of: Liljenquist Family Collection of Civil War Photo... More

PRESIDENT SIGNS PHILIPPINE BILL. WASHINGTON, D.C. AUGUST 7. PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT TODAY SIGNED A MEASURE DESIGNED TO FACILITATE THE ECONOMIC ADJUSTMENT OF THE PHILIPPINE COMMONWEALTH TO INDEPENDENCE STATUS. IT PROVIDES FOR GRADUALLY DECLINING DUTY-FREE QUOTAS ON IMPORTS FROM THE PHILIPPINES OF COCONUT OIL, CIGARS, AND PEARL BUTTONS. THE QUOTAS DECREASE BY 5 PER CENT EVERY YEAR UNTIL 1946, WHEN FULL POLITICAL INDEPENDENCE IS GRANTED THE ISLANDS. L TO R: FRANCIS B. SAYRE, NEW PHILIPPINE GOVERNOR; PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT; SERGIO OSMENA, VICE PRESIDENT OF THE PHILIPPINES; AND J.M. ELIZALDE, RESIDENT PHILIPPINE COMMISSIONER

PRESIDENT SIGNS PHILIPPINE BILL. WASHINGTON, D.C. AUGUST 7. PRESIDENT ...

A group of men standing around a desk. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

New list of prices of hoop skirts, thread, corsets, trimmings, hosiery, buttons, fancy goods and small wares, now being sold at the Cheap Store. 98 Dudley Street, Boston Highlands ... Boston. F. A. Searle, Printer. Journal Building [1868].

New list of prices of hoop skirts, thread, corsets, trimmings, hosiery...

Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 72, Folder 48.

Wilson Women's Wagon - distributing buttons

Wilson Women's Wagon - distributing buttons

Public domain photograph - female portrait, 1900s women, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Smallest boy six buttons on coat is Silveo Calabrese, 10 Thornton St., works in R.H. Long Shoe Factory. George Brothers, 99 Winthrop St., works in R.H. Long Shoe Factory, been there 8 [?] weeks; has finished seventh grade.  Location: South Framingham, Massachusetts.

Smallest boy six buttons on coat is Silveo Calabrese, 10 Thornton St.,...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph group portrait, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

His buttons are marked "U. S." - Public domain World War One sheet music

His buttons are marked "U. S." - Public domain World War One sheet mus...

words by Mary Norton Bradford ; music by Carrie Jacobs-Bond. (statement of responsibility) For voice and piano. Staff notation. (language)

His buttons are marked "U. S." - Public domain World War One sheet music

His buttons are marked "U. S." - Public domain World War One sheet mus...

words by Mary Norton Bradford ; music by Carrie Jacobs-Bond. (statement of responsibility) For voice and piano. Staff notation. (language)

Conversion. Compacts to ordnance. Rex Manufacturing Company, New Rochelle, New York. Stamping the seal of the United States on shells for brass buttons

Conversion. Compacts to ordnance. Rex Manufacturing Company, New Roche...

Picryl description: Public domain image of an industrial building, factory, workshop, workers, 20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Laying buttons and spraying colors, button factory, Warsaw, N.Y.

Laying buttons and spraying colors, button factory, Warsaw, N.Y.

H68569 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by Keystone View Company. No. 6774.

His buttons are marked "U. S." - Public domain World War One sheet music

His buttons are marked "U. S." - Public domain World War One sheet mus...

words by Mary Norton Bradford ; music by Carrie Jacobs-Bond. (statement of responsibility) For voice and piano. Staff notation. (language)

[Unidentified soldier in Union uniform with Massachusetts Volunteer Militia buttons]

[Unidentified soldier in Union uniform with Massachusetts Volunteer Mi...

Case: Berg, no. 3-113. Associated Massachusetts Volunteer Militia button processed as LOT 14043-1. Purchased from: Medhurst & Co., Overland Park, Kansas, 2010. Gift; Tom Liljenquist; 2010; (DLC/PP-2010:105). p... More